Melania Trump Arrives Solo to Air Base as First Couple Travels to Florida Amid Second Affair Scandal

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First lady Melania Trump eschewed the traditional South Lawn couple’s walk to Marine One on Friday amid another adultery allegation scandal, opting instead to drive separately ahead of President Donald Trump.

“With her schedule it was easier to meet him on the plane,” Stephanie Grisham, the first lady’s communications director, said in a statement.

First lady Melania Trump attends a Hanukkah reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 7, 2017. (Credit: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

Melania Trump does plan to accompany her husband when he visits with victims of the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, a White House official told CNN.

A White House spokesperson denied the affair in a statement to the magazine.

“This is an old story that is just more fake news. The President says he never had a relationship with McDougal,” the spokesperson said.

This isn’t the first break with tradition the first lady has showed in the wake of allegations of her husband’s indiscretions. She drove separately from the President to the US Capitol to attend the State of the Union address on January 30.

The White House said the unusual move was so she could attend a reception with the guests joining her in the first lady’s box and connect with them on a more personal level.

But it marked her first public event after The Wall Street Journal first reported a payment made to porn star Stormy Daniels, who allegedly had an affair with Trump in 2006, four months after Melania Trump gave birth to the couple’s only son, Barron.